mésalliance
/meɪ̯zəˈlaɪ̯əns/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The case is very different in England, where a grocer's daughter would think she made a mésalliance by marrying a painter […]"
- "He had been revolving in his mind the marriage question pending between Jos and Rebecca, and was not over well pleased that a member of a family into which he, George Osborne, of the —th, was going to marry, should make a mésalliance with a little nobody–a little upstart governess."
- "But this is too sanguine a belief. Instances of such mésalliance would be as rare as those of intermarriage between the Anglo-Saxon emigrants and the Red Indians."
- "It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have been disinherited because she made what they called a mésalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread."
- "To a mésalliance of that kind every globule of my ancestral blood spoke in opposition."
- "But if you marry the old count you will make his last days happy, and as widow of the Grand...the prince would no longer be making a mésalliance by marrying you."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /meɪ̯zəˈlaɪ̯əns/
- British English: /mɛˈzæli.əns/